An open letter to my Republican colleagues — Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, represents California's 28th Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Intelligence Committee. — This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided.

Netanyahu's Most Cynical Ploy Yet — By allying himself with one of Israel's most despicable parties, the prime minister is jeopardizing his legacy. — Most Americans have probably never heard of Yifat Ehrlich, or for that matter her former center-right political party in Israel, Bayit Yehudit.

Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite — Charlie Sykes is sitting behind a desk in a sparse, disheveled office—blank walls lined with empty filing cabinets, windows covered with crooked blinds—as he tries to conjure the perfect metaphor for The Bulwark, the anti-Donald Trump conservative news site he recently helped start.

Jim Risch tries to calm Republicans furious with Trump — Sen. Jim Risch was on the verge of facing down an insurgency from his GOP colleagues. — Top Senate Republicans were fuming at the Trump administration last week for ignoring congressional demands to further investigate the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Congress could block big chunk of Trump's emergency wall money — Full funds likely to be unavailable from the sources president has identified — A reporter's homage to government workers — unsung heroes of transparency Trump Ignites New Budget Fights by Targeting Pentagon Programs Inhofe open to ‘exaggerated’ war budget

Here's What Beto Could Unleash on Trump — AUSTIN, Texas—With rain hammering outside, Zack Malitz stood in a warehouse space lit by strands of bistro lights and began to reveal the campaign strategy of Beto O'Rourke in exacting detail. Malitz, who was the field director of O'Rourke's Senate campaign …

Facebook Grew Too Big to Care About Privacy — Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data. — Two years ago, a Yale Law School student published what became an influential paper about how antitrust law should apply …

Who is Nomiki Konst? — Nomiki Konst, the 35-year-old TV pundit casting herself as the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the New York public advocate's race, readily acknowledges that her background is politically unconventional. — She's wandered from Tucson to Buffalo to Florida to Los Angeles …

The anti-Ivanka — There is normally only one free edition of Popular Information each week. But I wanted to send along this newsletter because of the dramatic developments in the North Carolina election fraud scandal. — Popular Information has had a significant impact on this story.

Trump Won't Rule Out Using Stolen Data in 2020 Campaign — Democratic candidates have committed not to use hacked materials against one another. The Trump campaign declined to make such a pledge. — Nearly three years after hacked materials upended the 2016 presidential campaign …